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🥳 The #Dutch #Diamond #OpenAccess Expertise Center is now live!

🔗 openaccess.nl/en/diamond-open-

The center aims to reinforce and future-proof the Netherlands' #DiamondOA #publishing landscape.
It serves as a knowledge hub connecting #researchers, publishers, #librarians, #policymakers, and #funders.

🤩 We're excited to be a partner with our University of Groningen Press.

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On the difficulty of getting relevant scientific #evidence to #policymakers.
nature.com/articles/d41586-024

"Most specialists are unhappy with systems to provide science advice to policymakers…80% said their country’s science-advice system was either poor or patchy, and 70% said that governments are not routinely using such advice."

“It’s a constant tension between the scientifically illiterate and the politically clueless,” says Paul Dufour.

www.nature.comScience could solve some of the world’s biggest problems. Why aren’t governments using it?A Nature global survey finds that most specialists are unhappy with systems to provide science advice to policymakers.

@pluralistic has an #OpenLetter to #PolicyMakers to create a regulatory environment to prevent the #enshittification of our already partly enshittified #CleanTech

pluralistic.net/2024/06/26/unp

You need to read it, but most importantly, those who can actually, factually, change the system, before we're broke, living in a tent next to a mountain of #EWaste, need to read it.

In #Germany, I'm looking at you: @Bundesregierung @BNetzA
@Bundesverband

Wenns auf #Deutsch sein soll, geb einfach Bescheid.

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Fukuda [1]:“Anyone who tries to predict anything about #influenza is a bit foolish and hasn’t been in the field very long” “What has become clear to me over time is that the big challenge is not the viruses [...but rather] whether people, [...] governments, [...] #policymakers have the ability to actually address the challenge”

[1] Branswell, H., 2023. Tracking the bird flu, experts see a familiar threat - and a virus whose course is hard to predict. STAT. purl.org/INRMM-MiD/z-8WL7QGC3

STATTracking the bird flu, experts see a familiar threat — and a virus whose course is hard to predictWhile scientists who have been studying H5N1 bird flu for a couple of decades have a very healthy respect for it, a number are hedging their bets about what the virus's future path will look like.

My #introduction:

A #scientist by background, but working on #environmentalpolicy for over 20 years, particularly #EUPolicy on #chemicals, #waste and #sustainability
My work includes #advocacy, #scicomm, #collaborating with #GreenNGOs, #academics, #policymakers & coping with #IndustryLobbying

Exec Dir #CHEMTrust, earlier worked 2x at #FriendsoftheEarth

Based #London #UK but focus on #EU level, so know #Brexit
first hand!
Have lived in #Brussels, #Glasgow, #Edinburgh, #York, #Boston
#Cyclist